Why are guns destoryed after a crime

markj, in regards to your experience, I don't want to presume.

But in some cases like yours, destroying or getting rid of what would otherwise be a reminder is best.

My Grandfather committed suicide with a revolver during the depression and so Mom never liked my Dad to have pistols in the house. She was ok with rifles and shotguns, but pistols she didn't like. Later on she got over that but my Dad gave her the time to get over it on her own.
 
The Dude is right. These guns are now evil. they have tasted blood and they want more. They must have a stake driven through their black heart. For the children, of course.:rolleyes:
 
Our Fish and Game auctions of firearms seized for poaching and similar violations. Unfortunately they don't supply stories as one of the rifles was a semi-auto version of a 1919A4 Browning machine gun and I always wondered exactly what they were doing with that to have it seized.
 
Cars don't have a ballistic finger-print, looking at the analogy made in the OP.

My guess is that guns are destroyed because they have characteristic ballistic properties in their rifling and the police don't want to close a case and then have another shooting with the same ballistics taking place yet un related to the initial crime.

That is the only reason I can think of.

It is a shame though: getting them re-barrelled would be an option, assuming I have it right...
 
I guess once a gun has the taste of crime and killing in it, the gun will be harder to control and might just jump up and fire itself to satisfy the blood lust. Or maybe some folks think that guns have a power like the car in Stephen King's "Cristine" where the gun will change the personality of the new owner to more closely match the original owner/criminal and spur him on to commit some crime. I have heard people say they support the AWB because those guns "look so evil". There is no reasonable argument that works with people who have these beliefs. Maybe we have not progressed very far from punishing a tree after a man falls from it and dies.
 
I think Pond might have the most logical reason.

Unfortunately, I highly doubt that is the reason. My money is on ridiculous beliefs about guns themselves being evil.
 
they dont want us to have guns ever think of that?


some people dont want them back for obvious reasons. but the issue is that alot of police cull out the best for their own collections and use. stuff thats not sellable gets smelted
 
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Why are guns destroyed after a crime
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I have always been told its twofold. First, since many of these folks, once convicted are not eligible to own or receive their firearm back, it is destroyed. Second, those folk who are convicted, and can not own a firearm complain of "policing for profit" because some law enforcement do sell firearms with court approval.

While I do understand folks always look for 'deals' I hope that they understand that law enforcement is a service provided by the government. Selling seized property, even to recoup cost, opens up the can of worms about 'policing for profit'. That's without saying that no matter how a firearm is sold, there will be countless complaints of "if I would have known I would have paid more....I object!" Even when the firearm(s) are sold, the complaints still cost time (money) to resolve. Frankly its cheaper to cut them up, or else face suit about 'policing for profit' or various complaints about 'why didn't you tell me, I would have bid, or I would have bid more' type complaints. Its a real no win situation.
 
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Police Departments all around the country do sell confiscated and firearms used in crimes. I purchase them all the time. I am a FFL dealer. Last year, I purchased close to 5k guns.

There are those agencies though that believe no one should own a gun. Oh well. I focus my attention on the agencies that know they can benefit from the sale of these assets.
 
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